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Researchers Coat Titanium With Polymer To Improve Integration Of Joint Replacements
New research shows that coating a titanium implant with a new biologically inspired material enhances tissue healing, improves bone growth around the implant and strengthens the attachment and integration of...
Printed Optical Electronics Come Into View
European researchers have taken a major step towards the goal of developing printable electronics that can be used for creating radio frequency identification tags and flexible watch displays. Researchers have...
Health Scare of the Day: Quantum Dots
Health risks for the 21st century worker keep getting weirder. Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that quantum dots—nanoparticles made of semiconducting crystals that emit light when...
Worms do calculus to find meals or avoid unpleasantness
Thanks to salt and hot chili peppers, researchers have found a calculus-computing center that tells a roundworm to go forward toward dinner or turn to broaden the search. It's a...
New Form Of Energy-Transfer Processes: Atomic Tug Of War
A new form of energy-transfer processes, reported in Nature may have implications for the study of reactions going on in the atmosphere, and even for those occurring in the body.
Novel Sources of Dietary Fiber
Everyone knows that oat bran is a source of dietary fiber. Now dates, fenugreek, purslane and sweet potato greens are emerging to add their beneficial properties to the worldwide array....
Winning the Tour de France Takes Grit, Strength--And Cutting-Edge Technology [News]
To wear the winner's distinctive yellow jersey when this year's Tour de France ends in Paris on July 27, cyclists must make every second count throughout the race's 21 stages...
A front-row seat at this summer's physics extravaganza
Nearly 20 years in the making, the largest particle accelerator in the world will start running in Switzerland this summer, offering scientists a glimpse of particles that have never been...
Synthetic Molecules Emulate Enzyme Behavior For the First Time
Chemists have created a synthetic catalyst that can fold its molecular structure into a specific shape for a specific job, similar to natural catalysts. In laboratory tests, researchers were able...
Ionic-Liquid Solar Cells
Blending solids leads to stable ionic liquid and efficient energy conversion device
New Nanowire-Based Memory Could Beef Up Information Storage
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have created a type of nanowire-based information storage device that is capable of storing three bit values rather than the usual two—that is, "0,"...
As LHC Draws Nigh, Nobelists Outline Dreams--And Nightmares [News]
The number 14 turns up conspicuously in discussions of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the soon-to-be world's biggest particle accelerator. Construction of its underground, 17-mile (27-kilometer) ring on a site...
How a Solar Tower Could Power the Future
An Australian company has a plan to stick a kilometer-high chimney on top of a five-kilometer-wide greenhouse to make electricity.
Chip-cooling Technology Achieves 'Dramatic' 1,000-watt Capacity
Researchers have developed a technology that uses "microjets" to deposit liquid into tiny channels and remove five times more heat than other experimental high-performance chip-cooling methods for computers and electronics.
New Insights Into Quantum Mechanics: Unlocking Mysteries Of 'Blinking' Phenomena Of Fluorescent Molecules
More than a century ago, at the dawn of modern quantum mechanics, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Neils Bohr predicted so-called "quantum jumps." More recently, it has been possible to observe...
Archive of 'The Power of the Future' Columns
Michael Shirber writes a weekly power of the future column.
Email mentoring works
Email based mentoring is an effective alternative to traditional face-to-face mentoring, and has some unique benefits, according to a study.
Exposing The Sensitivity Of Extreme Ultraviolet Photoresists
Researchers have confirmed that the photoresists used in next-generation semiconductor manufacturing processes now under development are twice as sensitive as previously believed. The finding has attracted considerable interest because of...
Fermilab Cancels Layoffs
Thanks to last-minute funding from Congress, U.S. particle physics lab avoids staff cuts
Pocket-sized magnetic resonance imaging
The term “MRI scan” brings to mind the gigantic, expensive machines that are installed in hospitals. But research scientists have now developed small portable MRI scanners that perform their services...
Gold, DNA Combination May Lead To Nano-Sensor
The ability to use genetic material to assemble nanoscopic particles of gold could be an important step toward creating tiny “spies” that will be able to infiltrate individual cells and...
Ski Faster with Camera-less Fusion Motion Capture
Professional skiers can now learn how to ski faster with the aid of a new system used to capture 3D motion of athletic movements - Fusion Motion Capture (FMC)....
Solution to high energy costs could lie underground
Sandia National Laboratories researcher Georgianne Peek thinks a possible solution to high energy costs lies underground. And it`s not coal or oil. It`s compressed air energy storage (CAES).
Can we freeze time? Using lasers to film the secret lives of atoms -- frame by frame
Cutting edge laser 'cameras' which can film the super-fast movements of electrons inside materials are the subject of an Imperial College exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2008,...
Solar Shield Experiment Aims to Keep the Power On
When you flip a light switch to illuminate the pages of your favorite book or reach into your refrigerator for that last piece of key lime pie, you expect the...
Powering Cars With Toxic Waste
With global warming grabbing headlines, carbon-free nuclear power is gaining popularity—and with it, concerns over what to do with the spent uranium fuel. The largest long-term burial project, Yucca Mountain,...
Browser pioneer Andreessen joins Facebook board
(AP) -- Marc Andreessen, an entrepreneur and software engineer behind the Web's earliest browsers, has joined the board of the online hangout Facebook.
An oblivious transfer protocol for quantum cryptography
“It's hard to beat the noise that you have with quantum information,” Barbara Terhal tells PhysOrg.com. “So our security protocol relies on the fact that storing quantum bits noiselessly is...